That Chip GuyFeb 3, 2023
mcc

If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2

If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!

DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to maintain and streamline the operation of our own Mastodon infrastructure (servers, official resources) and help us scale with demand.

Feb 3, 2023 at 1:45amTusky
Show threadmccFeb 3, 2023
I am intentionally making this post during Australian afternoon hours because I have this wacky theory Mastosoc is faster to respond to downtime issues during European waking hours and if they hired some Australian or North American people maybe they could respond to events when Eugen is asleep, because Eugen probably has to sleep sometime lol
Show threadClairement crevée Feb 3, 2023
@mcc i have stopped trying to make sense of Eugen's effective timezone
Show threadJoshua A.C. NewmanFeb 3, 2023
@mcc @thegibson I mean…isn’t the thing to do to distribute the targets, too?
Show threadmccFeb 3, 2023
@JoshuaACNewman @thegibson I'm using mastodon.social, so it's in my personal interests for mastodon.social to have good uptime! It's also a good idea for the fediverse to be spread out across many servers, but that's a separate matter.
Show threadPetrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂFeb 3, 2023
@mcc #jobfairy Development engineer for Mastodon
Show threadSparkyFeb 3, 2023
@mcc @12 Wouldn't that be up your alley?
Show thread12 Freya it/its𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Feb 3, 2023
@Bright5park @mcc oh goddesses below, not managing that codebase. That's modern bullshit; we're a traditional Unix nerd
Show threadTransitBikerFeb 3, 2023
@mcc or join smaller instances.
Show threadThe Spoonless KitchenFeb 4, 2023
@mcc The trolls couldn't troll successfully from the server, so they decided "The server goes down?" Lots of fun, these Internet bad actors, aren't they? (Note my sarcasm.)
Show threadBill WoodcockFeb 12, 2023
@mcc

Alternatively, stand up an instance, using a different code-base. This isn't about trying to make any one instance bigger than all the others, against increasingly greater friction.